I can haz adjournment?
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Yup, came back to post this.
Couldn’t ask for a starker a reminder that prosecutors are not your friend no matter how cute they look or sound. Now they’ve ruined a much needed heartwarming internet cat moment because it turned out heartwarming internet cat is a right bastard.
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The way the article calls the victim “a former lover” is exceptionally generous to the lawyer.
I went in expecting a messy divorce, not a teenager being plied with alcohol by a guy in his fifties.
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The internet is made of cats and porn, and we’re lucky he landed on the cat setting.
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You’ll never take me alive!
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No. This hits me where I live. Yes, there was some trouble in the beginning, but ALL persons who filed a claim got paid in accordance with federal law.
I admit, there were definitely some technical challenges early on, but we always provided. It is, indeed, my job and has been since 1997.
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As opposed to this guy
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My DH has been jobless since very early 2020’s spate of coronavirus firings. He has had to file for unemployment benefits, which I repeatedly remind myself are sourced from monies pulled out of his previous paychecks–his money.
So please accept my apologies (no offense meant!) and my thanks for your part in making sure he got his checks. We and countless Texans who have been just trying to keep it together for our dependents and ourselves are grateful.
DH and I are rigorously frugal, and have been so since well before our 20+ year marriage. I can’t begin tell you how many ways we have scrambled, liquidated, worked for every cent to pay for essentials like electricity, gasoline, and food over the decades. Being frugal and holding down multiple jobs with weird hours all simultaneously means that no matter how much we save for a rainy day (and today, thundersleet), we need all the help we can get. DH is getting close to retirement age, so there’s a passel of fresh… challenges… coming at us in the next few years.
Thank you for your work.
And yeah, the interface over at the Texas Workforce Commission takes a bit of getting used to but it does work.
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I love how Oglaf is now obligatory.
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Actually, no. UI (Unemployment Insurance) is covered 50% by the feds and 50% by the employer. The employee does not pay for this (unless you’re self-employed & that’s a different can of worms I know little about.)
No offense was taken; the early months of the pandemic were a struggle to get all the claims processed and paid. I take pride in the fact that every legit claim that made it into the system was paid by the next business day.
I admit the interface might be a bit wonky, but it works & we get it done.
One unrelated question: what’s a DH? “Darling Husband” (or “Designated Hitter”) was all Google provided me.
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Interest in SCOTUS hearings would skyrocket.
Sadly, although like many courts they’ve been holding hearings remotely during the pandemic, they don’t seem predisposed to release any of the video…
Clearly they don’t want the American people to know that Roberts is really a cat.
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Dear Husband.
(But I can’t wait to tell him there are other (unheard of!) expansions of that acronym. Eek!)
Thank you for educating me.
Both I and DH are self-employed as well as contract-to-contract employees and/or very part-time longterm employees. Our income is a confusing diverse bag of not always overlapping unbig paychecks, withholding, etc. The gaps are not fun.
It took us a long time to get out of debt last time. We had and still have a very-pared-down-to-the-essentials budget. (We’ve still got 2 years left to cover many thousands of buck of college kid’s tuition, and that’s after his loans and some scholarship money from his college have lightened the load. He does work part-time job while taking a full course load.)
Thanks for this, from those of us in Texas who are just trying to keep it together right now. Good on ya!
I usually Google acronyms with which I am not familiar, but this one eluded me.
I am not a labor law expert despite my years of experience. We are at the mercy of the feds & the ever changing rules of Congress. I know the basics, but not the specifics, of labor law.
At any rate hopefully there are new things on the horizon for the two of you. In all my years, it has never escaped me that my job relies on other people losing theirs. It’s always been a odd place to be in.
ETA: Some grammar corrections.
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